T.V. Santhosh

T.V. Santhosh EXHIBITED AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY

T.V. SanthoshTracing An Ancient Error

2007

Oil on canvas

122 x 183 cm

Employing the themes of war and global terrorism, South Indian artist T.V. Santhosh paints in lurid greens and shocking orange, recreating the effect of a colour photographic negative. The artist charges his large canvases with figures in contoured and compromising positions. Like many of his politically motivated contemporaries, Santhosh lifts pivotal episodes from recent history and renegotiates their appearance with a shock-bulb of violent energy that eclipses the work. Santhoshâ€™s paintings of impending doom, a world at the brink of an atomic end, are intentionally more apocalyptic than cathartic. Tracing an Ancient Error is an illuminated work of what appears to be a bearded man lain out, revealing his chest, holding onto something resembling a thread. An image from recent news events, Santhosh captures this scene and reinvents its value as a piece of anonymous and charged history.

T.V. SanthoshStitching An Undefined Border

2007

Oil on canvas

122 x 183 cm

Santhosh has switched positive for negative colours in this work. An aged man appears to be operating a sewing machine in a confined space. The artist riddles the surface with wisps of illuminated light that fall over the image like uncontrollable energy or an explosive force. Santhosh often borrows from news images in his works but in representing them through negative colours, suggests otherwise hidden implications to be surmised.

2007 SH Contemporary, Shanghai
After Shock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Indiaâ€™, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Young Guns, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA), Mumbai
Year 07, London, presented by Grosvenor Vadehra, London
India 20, a Group Show that Coincided With the Release of the Book â€˜India 20â€™, at Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2006 Scars of An Ancient Error, Singapore Art Fair presented by The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Here And Now: Young Voices From India, Grosvenor Vadehra, London
Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection at The Chrysler Museum, Germany

2005 Whose Space Is It Anyway, Nature Morte, New Delhi in Collaboration with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Double Enders, Jehangir Art Gallery and The Museum Gallery, Mumbai
Are We Like This Only, Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi
Kaam, Arts India, New York
Change Of Address, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Paths of Progression, Saffronart and Bodhi Art, New Delhi, Mumbai , New York and Singapore
Ways of Seeing, Art Alive, New Delhi
Endless Terrain, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2003 National Gallery of Modern Art Annual Show, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
Crossing Generations : diVERGE, presented by Gallery Chemould at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
The Dual Path of Indian art Today, Galerie Muller and Plate, Munchen
Highlights, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and Bangalore
Works on Paper, Saffronart Online Show